August 1926

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Features

A Trip to the Bottom of the Sea

Hunting Coral and Studying the Living Beings of the Sea Floor In a Submarine Fairyland

By Ralph Waldo Miner

Guesswork--or Science?

The Method By Which the Scientist Locates Distant Earthquake Sources Is Surprisingly Simple in Principle

By Francis A. Tondorf

Raising Caligula's Sunken Galleys

The Testimony of the Jades

The Failure to Locate the Source of the Jade Used by the Maya Indians Does Not Prove that the Mayan Civilization Was an Old World Importation

By Henry S. Washington

The Fondest Dreams of the Astronomer

Things He Hopes For But Seldom Realizes. A New, Giant Telescope Is His Next Hope

By Henry Norris Russell

If House Flies Were as Big as Birds

The Education of a Parachute Jumper

Technique Is Important if One Is to Alight Safely After a Leap from a Speeding Plane

Science and Money, August 1926

The Heavens in August 1926

Patents Recently Issued, August 1926

Commercial Property News, August 1926

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